By Diana

With the end of the school year quickly approaching, McCaskey High School’s Vidette is working hard to pump out just one last issue. For some, it’s just another issue. For others (mainly seniors), it’s either a long goodbye or a chance to end the year with a bang. I’m inclined to the latter, but it has proven to be no small feat.

Long story short – Vidette’s grant money is running out and we could afford only one more issue this school year. This messed up our production schedule because we had planned two more issues. That in addition to our inconvenient week of final exams forced the editors to push the deadlines a week earlier.

Fast forward.

With a whole week lost, I’m frantic to get the “big” story I wanted to end the year with.

I was having an unbelievably hard time thinking of story ideas (which was a first). I did everything I usually do, but came up empty. Then I tried something I read reporters do when they need a story and finally got something. However, lead after lead didn’t check out.

Including the extra days the news editor and Vidette adviser trusted me with, I am now looking at a three-day window to pull a story together. An impossible deadline if you ask me.